An elephant (almost) never forgets

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I was admiring a friend of mine’s boyfriend’s T-shirt in the pub on Friday night. It was an elephant shape, but on closer inspection it had a couch, a couple of armchairs and a wall paper pattern inside the pink elephant shape. “It’s an elephant in a lounge”, I said beaming. He smiled and then said, “Um, no, it’s an elephant in the room”.

The “elephant in the room” is used to describe something that should be very obvious. (I would argue not THAT obvious)
“Seeing pink elephants” is a comical way to describe someone who is very drunk. (Surely 2 Corona’s doesn’t constitute VERY drunk?)